elegy

Example Sentences

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Yet it plays like an elegy, a film about endings, mortality and what we leave behind.

From New York Times

He recited a shepherd’s elegy: He started with 45 sheep; 30 remain.

From New York Times

The first 11 shows last fall were more celebration than elegy.

From New York Times

“After the first death, there is no other,” Dylan Thomas observed in his majestic elegy, “A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London.”

From Washington Post

The album serves as an elegy, mixtape and soundtrack, all in one.

From Los Angeles Times